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• The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything… — Nicholas Murray Butler
• [All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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• The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more… — John von Neumann
• We need to raise the level of our game in terms of explaining the planetary warming by infrared absorption of CO2 etc.… — Judith Curry
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• The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world. — David Berlinski
• The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler

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